Replicability and archiving of geological samples
In Nature this week, Noah Planavsky and coworkers, including the present director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, have an opinion pi...
In Nature this week, Noah Planavsky and coworkers, including the present director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, have an opinion pi...
Last week I commented on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ recent statement on access to data: “Biological Anthropology association speak...
My inbox this morning has an article by Diana Kwon in The Scientist, looking into the data decay from the supplementary materials of published scientific art...
For many years, biological anthropologists have been talking about data access.
The other day I happened back upon an old post from 2005, the first full year of the blog: “NSF and data access”. The post recounts my perspective on the pro...
Are you curious about open science, but don’t really know what it means? The September issue of The SAA Archaeological Record includes an article that review...
What should happen when scientists publish work that cannot be replicated?
Research on human evolution may have the worst history of data access for any field of science funded by the National Science Foundation. NSF has spent milli...
Lee Berger gave the luncheon plenary lecture at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists last Saturday, covering the recent discov...
Andy Farke did a short interview with Kelsey Stilson, an author of a recent study on the paleopathology of rhinocerotids: “Author Interview: Kelsey Stilson o...
From chapter 2 of Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences, a publication of the National Research...
In September our team announced the discovery of the new species, Homo naledi. The species comes from the Dinaledi Chamber, deep within the Rising Star cave ...
Some paleoanthropologists claim that they share data very widely, because they are exchanging datasets with other researchers to accomplish particular resear...
This is a reblog of my current article on the Africa edition of The Conversation, “Homo naledi fossil discovery a triumph for open access and education”, whi...
Genetics journals have for years routinely required sequence data to be deposited in a public database at the time that an article is published. Increasingly...
Barbara King devoted a recent NPR blog post to highlighting some professional acrimony in Current Anthropology: “Did Humans Evolve On The Savanna? The Debate...
Jacquelyn Gill is a paleoecologist who writes at her blog, The Contemplative Mammoth. Today she ponders a paradox: at the same time that pollen data are more...
The White House is looking to recognize people who are leading in open science efforts, either by providing free access to data or by using data that is alre...
The White House this week announced a new policy on public access to results from federally funded research. The announcement has gotten
This merits some attention: “Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project”.
The New York Times has an article by John Markoff today, pointing to several disputes over the standards for data release with scientific papers. “Troves of ...
Laura Clarke and colleagues report on the data access and management practices of the 1000 Genomes Project Clarke:1000:2012.
I submitted the following essay in response to the Request for Information on Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research from the...
This seems incredible, from Jonathan Eisen: “YHGTBFKM: Ecological Society of America letter regarding #OpenAccess is disturbing”.
Inside Higher Ed reviews and interviews an author who argues that the scholarly monograph shackles academics to an obsolete model of communication:
The international version of Der Spiegel is running an English-language profile of the traveling CT-scan project from Jean-Jacques Hublin and the Max-Planck ...
Technology Review reports on a recent conference trying to spread data mining techniques. The point of departure is the growth of electronic sensor networks ...
Jason Goldman covers the acquisition of Gombe chimpanzee records from the Jane Goodall Institute by Duke University (“Digitizing Jane Goodall’s legacy at Duk...
Genomes Unzipped, has finally unzipped:
Science Insider reports that the National Science Foundation is going to make a “data management plan” a requirement of every grant application.
In pursuit of my DIY genomics posts, I’ve been playing around with the Galaxy bioinformatics web tools. The team responsible for the South African genomes pu...
Science has a one-page editorial by National Academy of Science President Ralph Cicerone. He alludes to the climate change scandals of the last few months, a...
IBM and Google want students to ditch their laptops and pick up some big iron:
I would love to be able to say that the Ardipithecus pelvic and cranial reconstructions were open access.
I sense a touch of criticism regarding the grand unveiling of Ardi after 15 years wait. Now I've completed that sentence it makes sense. A large team spend 1...
OK, as you know I do this thing where I read the supplementary information in papers. I hate doing it; think they should put the stuff in the actual paper wh...
The editors of Scientific American offer arguments for greater data and public access to fossils in their current (September 2009) issue: “Fossils for All: S...
Software publisher O’Reilly is running an interview with David Dooling, data chief of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University: “Sequencing a ge...
Further drawbacks of databases in anthropology, after my post mentioning the issues. I’ll point to Martin Rundkvist’s discussion of “Open Source Dendrochrono...
Mike the Mad Biologist checks in with an interesting post on “The Double Standard of Genomic Data Release and the Role of Incentives”. The question: why do l...
Putting science back in its proper place, Congress has taken up a bill to eliminate the requirement that publicly-funded research be freely accessible by the...
Mark Weiss from NSF appeared at the AAPA business meeting to discuss recent changes in the funding guidelines from the Physical Anthropology program. The mo...